Apple and Microsoft team up to help the blind use computers -- with plug-and-play braille

Apple and Microsoft team up to help the blind use computers -- with plug-and-play braille

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https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-microsoft-braille-usb-hid-standard/

Apple, Microsoft and a handful of other tech companies are making it so you can plug in a braille display much like a mouse or keyboard. 

The companies have teamed up with the USB Implementers Forum, a nonprofit that promotes adoption of USB tech, to integrate braille into a new USB Human Interface Device (HID) standard (PDF), according to Engadget.

Apple and Microsoft team up to help the blind use computers -- with plug-and-play braille

May 31, 2018, 6:29pm UTC
https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-microsoft-braille-usb-hid-standard/ > Apple, Microsoft and a handful of other tech companies are making it so you can plug in a braille display much like a mouse or keyboard.  > The companies have teamed up with the USB Implementers Forum, a nonprofit that promotes adoption of USB tech, to integrate braille into a new USB Human Interface Device (HID) standard (PDF), according to Engadget.